some wierd font problems

2000-02-08 Thread Alan
), or what... It's hard to explain. Head to http://arcterex.ufies.org/gimpfont for screenshots and hopefully a more coherant explanation :) The original image is up there (bottom of the page), so hopefully someone else will find the same problem. Regards, arcterex -- Alan -=|=- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Is Add alpha channel really necessary?

2000-05-16 Thread Alan
switching need be done. Power users have full control and newbies can simply select Background w/ alpha if they wish. Alan

Re: RFC: The future of The GIMP

2000-12-12 Thread Alan
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 05:08:03PM +0100, Lourens Veen wrote: I realise that it's probably too late already, but dare I say C++? Did anyone ever even consider this? As for the plugin distribution, I think the nicest way would be to have a plugin manager that would enable you to download

Idea: Temporary tool assignment

2001-02-02 Thread Alan
Not sure if this has been discussed before, but after reading the article at http://www.advogato.com/article/239.html I noticed this paragraph (on the subject of keyboard shortcuts): PhotoShop is slightly superior (for the moment) in that it has temporary tool assignment. You can have a

Re: Space key border area ideas

2001-02-04 Thread Alan
- Alt + Space: swap tools. You have Current and Alternative (you guessed, Alt key), hitting it makes swap the places. If you choose another tool via menus / keys / buttons it becomes Current, and the previous one becomes Alternative. I really like this idea, as it eliminates the need for the

Re: Getting mouse coordinates from inside a gimp plug-in?

2000-06-27 Thread Alan F. Ho
of pictures and would like to automate the process, you could even write a script to handle the GIMP part non-interactively. This has the advantage of probably being more accurate than using the mouse for coordinates, but perhaps this is not what you wanted. If that's the case, sorry... Alan

Re: Gimp to MacOS

2000-07-24 Thread Alan F. Ho
It would be lovely if there was a high quality open source OCR program available. I think there might be one or two people working on ocr, but the projects still seem to be fairly young. -Alan

Re: Gimptool in Gimp 1.0.4

2000-08-01 Thread Alan F. Ho
Perhaps have the users run rpm -ql gimp-devel | grep gimptool. Alan